I'm a bloggin' and a loggin'
Hello blog readers - or "Bleaders"...
Hope all is great with you - since we last spoke - or since I last wrote anyway, I've become a lumberjack. Let me explain...
I've just moved house and the garden's got lots of trees in it - so after finishing in the office - I get the train home and start chopping trees. And do you know what? It's brilliant!!!
If you haven't tried chopping down a tree before, I suggest you start now. Get a tree - ideally one that's in your garden or a friends perhaps, and start chopping it. It's great fun and good exercise too. Why go to the gym when you can have fun with a saw!
As a result of moving house, all my clothes are still packed away somewhere in the bedroom so I'm currently wearing odd t-shirt/trouser combinations. Nice.
Anyway - the show's good fun at the moment - today we did the stress test. I still can't quite stand properly and my back hurts. Carrie is the most competitive girl in the western world so no surprise that she beat everyone!!!!
I'm off shortly to start chopping more trees - I really can't wait. Let me know if you're tree choppers too. let's meet up, let's start a club, let's .....
Ok - enough now.
Bye bye,
Dom
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hello Dom!
i think you do more work than the others because you read the news on other people's shows too.
does that make you feel a bit proud and maybe a little better than everyone else?
you make me laugh more than anyone else... not in the world... just on the show.
well done!
bry x
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Is that a picture of your garden? How come the rest of the team have apartments etc an you have your own forest park?
Ithink im in the wrong trade i should learn how to read the news!!
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Hey Fellow Liverpoo FN,wHOS YOUR FAVOURITE PLAYER,aNYWA CHOPPING TREES IS GREAT WE DO IT ALL THE TIME HERE IN nORWAY oNE LAST THING BEAT YOU AT THE STRESS TEST LASTED A FULL 10 MINS
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Wooooh ignorant hippies, even without many many trees we would still be able to breath..most of our oxygen is recycled by algae and more simplistic forms of plantlife, as the more advanced flaura take in oxygen at night.
Also, have you seen how many trees there are there? Overcrowding is cruel for trees as muc has it is for animals if you believe trees should have rights, as it prevents the growing of new ones.(just thought i'd make a stand for people who aren't crazy hippies).
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Hi Dom
I cant belive its true.....
you really do have an egg for a head.
tara. x
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HELP
I HAVE HIC-UPS
BYE BYE
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ok, so Dom, you put up quite an innocent post updating with the goings on in your world and all you get is grief.
Tree hugers asking you to have more thought for the environment, telling you to go to the gym instead of cutting down trees, 'it takes years to grow and you chop it down in a second'.....and???? It's the same people who drive those environmentally friendly 'i run on pigeon crap' cars. NOT COOL
Hey, one for you vegetarian (but I eat fish) tree hugging environmentally friendly dudes......i just planted a tree in my garden to replace the one that Dom chopped down in his.........and then I used my banned hosepipe to water it......go figure!!!
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Dom!
I miss 1 Road Travel when driving myself to Uni every morning...now I am in Germany (have been away for a YEAR...working for a famous german car manufacturer who, funnily enough, HAVE NOT given me a car), but thankfully returning to the UK soon! You are always so funny on the show and I love listening to the podcast on the bus...even though I have laughed out loud many times, much to the horror of my fellow german bus-riders (I know, LAUGHING...phew, not used to THAT over here).
Anyway love the blog, love the show, LOVE LOVE LOVE your impressions (esp. the Jade Goody one! Brilliant!). Keep it up!
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owdo dom from yorkshire,just had to tell you i think you should have your own comedy show,i think your the funniest member of the team.
and 1 road travel rocks.
traaa from sheffield
p.s UP THE OWLS
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Hi Dom,
all this devastation of filthy wildlife is all very well, but we need to know what it's all for! Do you plan on doing a Macca and building a luxury hunting lodge in your grounds?
And there's a distinct lack of coffee table imagery here .. Aled might be Welsh, but at least he keeps his word!
:-)
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Hi Dom,
I really think you should take up another excercise to release your inner stress. Tree-chopping is not the way to go! It takes so long for a tree to grow and you destroy it in a second. I think you could have taken more thoughts and transplant the trees to other spaces...
Next time please take more thoughts for our environment.
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Dom what are you doing encouraging people to chop trees down??? do you want people to be able breathe???
well done you tree chopping, oxygen hating egg head!
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Hi Dom,
Once you have chopped down the trees do you cut them into 2 short planks for company?
You really need to get out more.
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hello dom, chopping trees is great fun until something goes wrong. we chopped a tree down with an axe. we tied rope to it to guide it in the right direction. it fell the wrong way and dragged us with it. next door didn't find it as funny as we did.
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Dom, You dont look like you sound! Not sure what or who i expected you to look like. I think you come out with some brilliant 1 liners, real funny!
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Wow, interesting! Next paint drying!!
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Your blogs are so much better than Aled's, id much rather read about chopping down trees than an HDTV stand. I must try this tree chopping.
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Dom, whenever people complain that Chris only works 3 hours a day, you are always remarkably quiet.
Could this indeed be that you are afraid that somebody will point out that you only work an estimated 21 minutes per day (seven 3 minute bulletins each morning, from 6.30am to 10.30am)? Don't try and argue that you work in between - your Ceefax copying has been well documented before now.
All this tree talk, I can't help but think that you're trying to hide the truth again! Think we can't handle the truth? We want the truth! And the news...
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The seventh post was by myself. You count these posts from the bottom up, as the newest one appears at the top. Should it be this way round? Discuss.
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Before i get to the blog, someone on the 7th post has used the last half of my name, hmmm....
Im going to be honest Dom and here and say i truly have never chopped any trees. Though i watched my dad did it once. Before he chopped the tree though, he lopped the branches, whatever that may be. I think its like tying a rope round the branches, then grabbing on the rope and swinging from it to make the branches break, which to me, looks waaaay more fun. You should try it Dom. I had a go, but since i wasnt heavy enough to break the actual branches, i was just really dangling from a tree doing absolutely nothing to help the lopping situation.
Anyway, it seems i mightve just wrote a comment that maybe just strikes people as ridiculously boring, a bit like Daves blogs :D...though i like Daves blogs so it might not be a bad thing :D
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great blog Dom
yes ive always thought that chopping trees could be fun a good way to get rid of stress so i heard ha
i did that stress thing today and it blooming killed me Thanks
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Good work Dom. I hope your using proper kit to protect your eyes, and if using a power saw, ear protection as well. Will you be utilising your freshly cut wood for anything in particular?
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Hey Dom,
I think you're really funny...
In fact, you're waaay funnier than Dave and all the rest of the team (except Chris, of course). They should call you Comedy King Dom (actually, no.... that sounds like King Kong).
Ive started saying 'Brilliant' alot now, thanks to you.
Keep up the good work.
And if there's a Sony award for funniest newsreader, it should have your name written all over it.
XX
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Thanks Mike. Personally, I'd like to see the beavers get a good deal, but a memorial may be more poignant. The log cabin might be too ironic, don't ya think?
Joseph
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That's a head full of facts, you've got there Dom.You have inspired me and i may well go down the local park and cut down some trees.
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I like 'joseph mccrumbles' first idea (",) lol
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Have you noticed Dom your clock is on the 24 hour clock and its 12 hours out, sort it
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I have a feeling Chris might be playing Monty Python's Lumberjack song tomorrow...
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Hi im Pauuuuuuuuuul Berrrrrrrrrrrrrrry from 1 road travel with the fablous domi burns.
you are my hero Dom
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As a tree-hugger, I am protesting your blog until you have
planted double the amount of trees which you have chopped up!!! I can't
believe you take pleasure in chopping trees (not tree, trees) :-(
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BRILLIANT (the only word you use to describe something or body) you certainly are not!!
You are getting far too involved with the show - you're a newsreader!! I think you should just let the experts get on with it!!
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Hiya Dom,
My Dad is a bit of a weirdo like you, he loves chopping down trees too, and i reckon he'll be well up for joining your weird tree choppng club!!
i'll pass on the details for you,
Enjoy
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What happened - did you move into a wood?
What are you going to do with the trees once they are felled? I have some suggestions
1)build a memorial in the middle of your garden commemorating the slaughter
2)Construct a log cabin which you turn into an eco-centre to warn against the environmental perils of, er, logging
3) Build a bonfire and charge people a tenner to watch it burn. Send the money to a charity that provides logs for homeless beavers to construct their own dams
4) Turn the logs into bark chippings and sell them in Tesco bags from the front of your house
5) Take up wood turning - a hobby for life.
Hope this helps
McCrumble
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You could offer the bits of tree free to anyone who wants them in your local paper, buyer collects, that way they will not be wasted x
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Brilliant :D Although, I have to say, I'm a little disappointed - you promised us a picture of coffee table, and I was very excited to see it, but there's no picture!!!
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I agree, chopping trees is brilliant fun!
Make sure you wear a helmet though, ya don't want that round bald head of urs getting injured!!
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Dominic! Where is your coffee table! Booo!
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ummmmm, i hope greenpeace dont read your blog!!
Haha
Great show, keep up the good work.
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Dear oh dear, Dom. You've become an eco-terrorist. And I had expected so much more from you. Trees are our friends.
Anyway, must dash. I need to fill up my V8 4x4 with petrol.
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